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A sweeping Pentagon review of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will declassify interview transcripts, internal documents, and findings from prior investigations that officials say the Biden administration kept under wraps, according to the adviser leading the effort. Stu Scheller, a Pentagon adviser and former Marine officer who was jailed after publicly demanding accountability over […]

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the German parliament Wednesday that Berlin intends to transform the Bundeswehr into the strongest conventional fighting force on the continent, a sweeping pledge backed by a new strategy that calls for more than doubling the country’s troop strength and preparing for the possibility of a Russian large-scale attack on NATO […]

A Virginia circuit court judge on Wednesday blocked the state from certifying the results of a special election on a redistricting referendum, ruling that the process behind the ballot measure violated state law and declaring every vote cast in the April 21 contest “ineffective.” The decision dealt a sharp blow to Democrats who had banked […]

Virginia voters narrowly approved a new congressional redistricting map that could hand Democrats a 10, 1 edge in the state’s House delegation, and the Republican response has been anything but unified. The ballot measure passed with 51.5% in favor and 48.5% against, a razor-thin margin that now threatens to reshape Virginia’s political landscape for the […]

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday blocked California from forcing federal immigration agents to display identification during operations, ruling that the state’s No Vigilantes Act likely violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. The decision marks the second time a federal court has struck down a key provision […]

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Florida’s Everglades immigration detention center, the facility critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, can remain open, reversing a lower-court order that would have forced the site to wind down operations over alleged violations of federal environmental law. The 2-1 decision hinged on a straightforward question: who built […]

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham unveiled a budget resolution this week that would funnel up to $140 billion over the next three and a half years to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, a move Republicans say is necessary because Democrats refuse to fund the agencies through normal channels. The upper chamber could […]

The Justice Department sent a letter to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett on April 14 demanding roughly 865,000 ballots and hundreds of thousands of related election records from the November 2024 federal election, and warned that a failure to comply within 14 days could trigger a federal court order. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, […]

A federal appeals court late Friday night allowed construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom to move forward, overriding a lower-court order that had blocked above-ground work on the project just 24 hours earlier. The ruling hands the administration a procedural win in a fast-moving legal fight over presidential authority, historic preservation, […]

California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office flagged roughly $2 billion in budget accounting errors tied to the state’s public employee retirement system as early as February, but state legislative leaders kept the problem under wraps for months while publicly debating deficits built on flawed numbers, Fox News Digital reported. The issue did not surface publicly until […]